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flat: tweak default stack alignment
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The recent commit 1f0ce8b ("mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slab_def.h>") which moved the
ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN default into the global header inadvertently broke FLAT
for a bunch of systems.  Blackfin systems now fail on any FLAT exec with:
Unable to read code+data+bss, errno 14 When your /init is a FLAT binary,
obviously this can be annoying ;).

This stems from the alignment usage in the FLAT loader.  The behavior
before was that FLAT would default to ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN only if it was
defined, and this was only defined by arches when they wanted a larger
alignment value.  Otherwise it'd default to pointer alignment.  Arguably,
this is kind of hokey that the FLAT is semi-abusing defines it shouldn't.

So let's merge the two alignment requirements so the floor is never 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Cc: David McCullough <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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vapier authored and torvalds committed Jun 29, 2010
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* Here we can be a bit looser than the data sections since this
* needs to only meet arch ABI requirements.
*/
#ifdef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
#else
#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN (sizeof(void *))
#endif
#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN max_t(unsigned long, sizeof(void *), ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)

#define RELOC_FAILED 0xff00ff01 /* Relocation incorrect somewhere */
#define UNLOADED_LIB 0x7ff000ff /* Placeholder for unused library */
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